Tuvea Says:
July 3rd, 2018 at 7:46 am
It will take historians 100 years from now to determine what the exact tipping point was. When the vast middle class in the US collectively decided that they were fed up being lied to by the leftists.

parker Says:
July 3rd, 2018 at 12:08 am
The ‘intellectuals’ may be as as smart as they dream, but they lack wisdom and common sense. … Go ahead and start CW2, you will starve to death before it is over.

Dennis Says:
July 2nd, 2018 at 8:40 pm
I’m not a lawyer, but long ago when I was working on a Master’s Degree in Public Administration, I was encouraged to take a number of pre-law courses, which I did and found very interesting. Somewhere along in there someone mentioned in passing that a Constitutional Law background did not teach about the Constitution, it’s background and value but rather about how to get around the precepts of the Constitution. Whenever I hear about someone being a “Constitutional Scholar” or “Professor” now I think of that and it is invariably true.

Fractal Rabbit Says:
July 2nd, 2018 at 5:24 pm
As they say at Instapundit, “They will hate the new rules when applied to them.”

https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2018/07/03/if-were-nazis-expect-more-violence-n2496661?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky3

“ecause of the ever-descending moral and intellectual state of the mainstream news media, there has been no outcry against the leftists who call President Donald Trump and all Americans who support him Nazis. Indeed, members of the media now regularly do so.

Without that outcry, this labeling will only increase; and this steadily increasing drumbeat of hysteria is likely to lead to one result: violence against conservatives.
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The New York Times recently reported that left-wing intellectuals regret the historic liberal defense of free speech. There is no question that if the left were to have its way, many, if not most, conservative opinions would be legally banned and those expressing them arrested.

I pray violence does not erupt in America. But if, God forbid, it does, let’s be clear it was the left that started it, just as surely as the South’s firing at Fort Sumter started the first Civil War.”

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/287236/

I couldn’t find Kurt actually saying this in so many words, but this article is what he is talking about.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2017/02/13/shoving-alinskys-rules-for-radicals-right-back-in-the-lefts-ugly-face-n2284892

People will most likely be surprised that as more people fight these totalitarians, the more people will come to adopt the same methods just to survive.

They will be surprised but they will feel they have little choice but to learn from their enemies. That is how darkness converts light into darkness.

Mao and Stalin produced generations of slaves that thought Stalin pappa and chairman Mao were the good guys. Are we supposed to nuke all of them? Then what, whe nthe Left corrupts the heart of America. Nuke America too?

The old Lefties in the audience were thrilled and quivering, little gasps here and there, and I knew they were all huffing the glue of TDS, imaging themselves in her shoes, heroically resisting … Donald Trump!

Sure enough, in the Q&A afterwards, the playwright and audience all identified with Akhmatova: ENTIRELY MISSING the HUGE fact that Stalin was one of THEM. “Deranged” is not too strong a term for these folks. If Akhmatova were alive, she would scorn them and shout, “YOU are the Bolsheviks, not the refuseniks!!!”

Sheesh. It really is a species of insanity. The woman sitting next to me has a giant poster of Chairman Mao [50 million victims] in her son’s room — and she didn’t get it.

Whether they are Islamist, or Leftist, the totalitarianism is what eventually comes out.

And their mantra is: “Democracy is like a train. You ride it until you get where you want to be, then you hop off.”

Now, being totalitarians, they are constantly confusing terms. “Democracy” is not what they are really talking about. They are talking about the American Experiment In Liberty, which is more properly termed “Natural-Law-Based Constitutional Federal Democratic Republicanism.”

(But, I suppose “NLBCFDR” doesn’t have much of a ring to it.)

Anyway, the left today is finding out that “Democracy,” so-defined, isn’t doing quite what they wanted, as fast as they wanted.

They think the train is rolling “backwards,” (by which they mean: away from 20th-century centralized authoritarianism coupled to sexual libertinism). So, naturally, they want to hop off, find a new ride.

But even if it were rolling “forwards,” they would want to hop off eventually, just like Erdogan in Turkey. Elections got him into office; now he’s stacking the deck to make sure they can’t remove him from office. Democracy got him to his stop, then he hopped off.

All that loud support for “Democracy” (defined however), in the end, is pure sham. They don’t want “Democracy,” whether American, Athenian, or otherwise.

No. What they most desire, at heart, is the power to compel others’ behavior and minds to agree with whatever they happen to believe is just and true, today.

(It’ll be different tomorrow. Tomorrow they’ll compel everyone to believe some other damned thing.)

That is why they turn so quickly on persons who agree with them, but who refuse to use mental compulsion (propaganda) or physical compulsion (lawfare or legislation) against others. Mere agreement with the “How Things Ought To Be” propositions is not enough for the left; they also require you to be anxious to compel others.

Like I said: It’s the usual thing with totalitarians.

“What I have come to see is that it’s a mistake to think of free speech as an effective means to accomplish a more just society.” — Siedman July 2018

And this idiot teaches Constitutional Law?

There are also branches in Britain. This isn’t the Flat Earth Society Hussein boy mentioned, but something that came out of the internet sub communities, similar to the Alt Right from PUA and Alpha Game and various other things (gaming).

So these people don’t steal money from the public to fund themselves, unlike the Left’s serial killer happy boys at Planned Profit. But they don’t want to allow these people to do anything, because it is unsightly.

That is their version of free speech. You are only free to express yourself if the Left approves it. If the Sun God approves it, you can exist and be alive. Be grateful Slaves of America.

UnArtfldgr Says:
July 3rd, 2018 at 10:17 am

I don’t know who that is whether it is Art or not, but the formatting is a nice touch. In other words, I must have changed world lines ala steins;gate.